Louis Hebert

Louis Hebert (13 March 1820-20 January 1901) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Louis Hebert was born in Iberville Parish, Louisiana in 1820, the cousin of Governor Paul Octave Hebert. Hebert graduated from West Point in 1845, but he resigned his US Army commission in 1846 to work on his father's plantation. Hebert served in the state legislature and served as Chief Engineer from 1855 to 1860, and he was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate States Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. Hebert became acting commander of Benjamin McCulloch's division at the Battle of Pea Ridge after both McCulloch and James M. McIntosh were killed, only to be wounded and captured. He was exchanged on 20 March 1862, just thirteen days after the battle, and he was promoted to Brigadier-General in May 1862. He led a brigade at the Battle of Iuka, a division at the Second Battle of Corinth, and a brigade at the Siege of Vicksburg, during which he was captured for a second time. He was exchanged on 13 October 1863, and he served in the Cape Fear District in North Carolina and became chief engineer of the department, commanding the heavy artillery of Fort Fisher. After the war, he became a newspaper editor, and he died in 1901 at the age of 80.